The Witness Line
And I said something about not wanting to worry her.
And my mother said: “Hannah.
You didn’t tell me because I’d have asked you a question.”
That is the single most accurate sentence anybody in my family has ever said to me and she said it in a kitchen in Eau Claire without raising her voice.
She has since met Teresa.
They get on alarmingly well.
She has been to four of the Witness Line ceremonies and she brings a handbag with nothing useful in it and stands about two feet away and says nothing, and she is better at it than I am.
Work was different.
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